1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team
1956 Swaythling Cup (men's team) | |
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← 1955 1957 → |
The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 23rd edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]
Japan won the gold medal defeating Czechoslovakia 5–1 in the final. China and Romania won bronze medals after finishing second in their respective groups.[3][4][5][6]
Medalists
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's team | Japan Ichiro Ogimura Toshiaki Tanaka Yoshio Tomita Keisuke Tsunoda | Czechoslovakia Ivan Andreadis Ladislav Štípek Václav Tereba Ludvík Vyhnanovský | China Hu Ping-chuan Chiang Yung-Ning Tsen Huai-Kuang Wang Chuanyao Yang Jai-Hua |
Romania Matei Gantner Tiberiu Harasztosi Paul Pesch Mircea Popescu Toma Reiter |
Swaythling Cup tables
Group A
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
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1 | Japan | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | Romania | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 |
3 | Germany | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | Hong Kong | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Sweden | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | Philippines | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
7 | Australia | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Singapore | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Group B
Pos | Team | P | W | L | Pts |
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1 | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
2 | China | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
3 | England | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
4 | South Vietnam | 7 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
5 | India | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
6 | United States | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
7 | Korea | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
8 | Portugal | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Final
Japan 5 | Czechoslovakia 1 | Score | |
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Ogimura | bt | Andreadis | 26–28 21–19 21–13 |
Ogimura | bt | Štípek | 21–6 21–18 |
Tanaka | bt | Vyhnanovský | 21–11 18–21 21–16 |
Tanaka | bt | Štípek | 21–12 21–13 |
Tsunoda | lost to | Andreadis | 22–24 21–16 16–21 |
Tsunoda | bt | Vyhnanovský | 21–11 21–19 |
See also
List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
- ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "1956 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
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